ECON 101
Helpful Tip: Past students have found that reading the textbook for this course has helped them study for exams.
Overview of Macroeconomics
Big Picture
Overview of Macro Topics (+ Review for final)
GDP
What is GDP?
Components of GDP
Overview of Calculating GDP
Income Approach
Income Approach (AKA Factor, Factor Income Approach)
Value Added/Production Approach
Value added approach to calculating GDP
Expenditure Approach
Expenditure Approach Overview
Expenditure Approach Example
National Spending (AKA Expenditure) Overview
All Three Approaches - Overview & Practice
Relating the Expenditure, Income, and Value Added Approach
Inflation & the CPI
CPI and Inflation: Reciew & Practice
Business Cycles
The Business Cycle
Stages, Characteristics and Causes
Aggregate Supply and Demand
The AD Curve
(Playlist)
The AS Curves: SRAS and LRAS (Playlist)
AD & AS Model Overview (w/ textbook example)
Why is the Aggregate Demand Curve Downward Sloping?
Demand Shocks to Aggregate Demand Curve
Review: The AS/AD Model
Phillips Curve
Review: The Phillips Curve
Intertemporal Choices: Consumption & Savings
Intertemporal Choice (CLAS)
Intertemporal Budget Constraint (Textbook Example)
Intertemporal Choice: Utility Maximization Over Two Time Periods
Solow Model of Economic Growth
Solow Model (Playlist)
review + forumla explanations + examples
Production Possibility Frontier
Production Possibilities Curve (Part 1)
Production Possibilities Curve (Part 2)
Comparative Advantage
Comparative Advantage (Playlist)
Credit Markets / Borrowing & Lending
How Changing the Interest Rate affects Savers and Borrowers
Unemployment
Natural Rate of Unemployment
Purchasing Power of Parity
Part 1
Part 2
Welfare
Welfare Analysis: Think Vertically
Income Inequality: Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient
Demand & Marginal Benefit Curves
UCSB CLAS ECON & STATS